Doctors can use different types of surgical thread made from materials such as silk or nylon, which may be in single filaments or braided.

There's even surgical thread that is designed to dissolve over time so that the stitches don't need to be removed.

The workers sew up the shorter slashes themselves, using surgical thread and needles.

The surgical thread had no doubt long ago dissolved, but upper and lower lids had grown together.

Flash Gordon turned up, a ragged line of surgical thread above one eyebrow.

"Without your surgical thread and those safety pins, we'd both have been out of luck."

The early years of the 20th century saw the manufacture of surgical threads which were woven rather than twisted.

"Catgut is a type of surgical thread made from the intestines of cows or sheep."

Chitin's properties as a flexible and strong material make it favorable as surgical thread.

It also has multiple uses, including surgical threads.